"You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence."
— Julien Smith
"Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping."
— Augusten Burroughs
"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
— Helen Keller
"If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it."
— Roy T. Bennett
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
— Bertrand Russell
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger ..."
— George Eliot
"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."
— Jane Austen
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
— Alphonse Karr
"If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching,..."
— C. S. Lewis
"A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place."
"New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it."
— Dorothy Parker
"It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance."
— Epicurus (recorded in later summaries)
"I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody."
— Jenny Han
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
— Milton Berle
"It is not sufficient that we learn; we must apply. It is not enough that we desire; we must do."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe